Monday, September 26, 2016

Strigastadt Play Report II

Continuing with my posting of month-old summaries to get the blog caught up:

Session recap:
Last session the group put on their strategist hats and drew
up a plan of attack for a job Barbarus (Jackson) received from his
contact with the Righteous Banner. Mork had requested he burn down a
warehouse full of armaments owned by Lady Hargrave's guards, a callous
but skilled group stationed on the upscale Glass Street. The Righteous
Banner fears that, should the political situation turn violent, the
ruthless Hargraves would be a serious existential threat to their
people. Several plans of attack were drawn up, including convincing a
waiter of an upscale tower-restaurant overlooking the building to
conceal them after closing so they could descend unseen, but the party
was split over the arson aspect of the plan since the warehouse was on
the ground floor of a partially residential building, and a midnight
burning would likely entail the deaths of bystanders. Barbarus argued
they were rich folks anyhow, and therefore class enemies, but that
failed to sway the other members of the party. Instead an alternate plan
was drawn up to infiltrate from the warren of tunnels beneath the
warehouse, steal the armaments, and use their contacts with the
Blackbirds to smuggle them across the river for sale to their buyer in
the Grey District. The Blackbirds have agreed to the plan on the
condition no-one will know the party is working with the gang, since the
Hargrave guards are widely feared for their ruthless suppression of
criminals. In order to scout the layout of the warehouse, Chuck Chuckleston (JT) managed to win his way into
a fresh batch of recruits via a violent try-out.

Meanwhile
Zamara (Maybe??? Heather's character) glorified her deity by brawling
in the fighting pits of Zig. She won the first couple rounds but when
the tides changed she tried to press her luck, eager to win glory and
egged on by the alleged pit veteran Chuck Chuckleston. She earned a broken
arm for her troubles, and is now on the mend. Sling and all though she
still helped win over adherents to their heist plan with her force of
personality.

Delaying their plan a bit until everyone was
in place, they decided to try and take on the rampaging shaggamaw
(figuring the Blind Vipers were probably too much for them, even reduced
as they were), putting together a trap and ambush in an alleyway near
where it had been seen. The fisherman used rope to suspend a bundle of
cobblestones and a barrel of rainwater above the alley, and tied up a
net to prevent the beast's escape. The party lay in wait along the
rooftop, with several folks down in the alley with some bloody rags to
attract its attention. It unexpectedly came up through a different sewer
grate, and the party hastily took down the net that was now preventing
their own escape. Fortunately when it got to them the trap worked
flawlessly, disorienting the beast and wounding it. It still managed to
scoop Chuck Chuckleston into its mouth and was moments from biting off a
leg when it was brought down by the sudden onrush of cudgel and sword
wielding ambushers. The jerks from Lord Brinston's watch rewarded them
for their effort surprisingly, and have hung the body from in front of
their guard station to awe the populace.